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From: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
To: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>,
	Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Jonathan Liu <net147@gmail.com>,
	Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>,
	Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com>,
	"Chintakuntla, Radha" <Radha.Chintakuntla@caviumnetworks.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>, David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	ddaney.cavm@gmail.com, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 01:21:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <573E66B6.40109@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1605191726030.15478@laptop>

Hi Scot,

> Two systems are locking on boot [1] because ops->cur_blink_jiffies
> is set to zero from vc->vc_cur_blink_ms.
> 
> Ignore such invalid intervals and log a warning.

This prevents a lockup on AST BMC machines, but (as expected) generates
a warning against the fbcon driver, which is a significantly better
result.

Tested-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>

[now to sort out the issue in the ast driver...]

Cheers,


Jeremy

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
To: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>,
	Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Jonathan Liu <net147@gmail.com>,
	Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>,
	Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com>,
	"Chintakuntla, Radha" <Radha.Chintakuntla@caviumnetworks.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>, David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	ddaney.cavm@gmail.com, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 09:21:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <573E66B6.40109@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1605191726030.15478@laptop>

Hi Scot,

> Two systems are locking on boot [1] because ops->cur_blink_jiffies
> is set to zero from vc->vc_cur_blink_ms.
> 
> Ignore such invalid intervals and log a warning.

This prevents a lockup on AST BMC machines, but (as expected) generates
a warning against the fbcon driver, which is a significantly better
result.

Tested-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>

[now to sort out the issue in the ast driver...]

Cheers,


Jeremy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-20  1:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-17 18:41 [PATCH] tty: vt: Fix soft lockup in fbcon cursor blink timer David Daney
2016-05-17 20:49 ` Pavel Machek
2016-05-18  0:42   ` Ming Lei
2016-05-18 20:24     ` Scot Doyle
2016-05-18 20:38       ` David Daney
2016-05-18 20:38         ` David Daney
2016-05-19  4:21         ` [PATCH] fbcon: use default if cursor blink interval is not valid Scot Doyle
2016-05-19  4:21           ` Scot Doyle
2016-05-19  7:25           ` Jeremy Kerr
2016-05-19  7:25             ` Jeremy Kerr
2016-05-19  8:29           ` Ming Lei
2016-05-19  8:29             ` Ming Lei
2016-05-19  9:01           ` Pavel Machek
2016-05-19  9:01             ` Pavel Machek
2016-05-19  9:01             ` Pavel Machek
2016-05-19 14:22             ` Scot Doyle
2016-05-19 14:22               ` Scot Doyle
2016-05-19 15:31               ` Ming Lei
2016-05-19 15:31                 ` Ming Lei
2016-05-19 15:59           ` David Daney
2016-05-19 15:59             ` David Daney
2016-05-19 15:59             ` David Daney
2016-05-19 22:25             ` Scot Doyle
2016-05-19 22:25               ` Scot Doyle
2016-05-19 22:31               ` [PATCH] fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals Scot Doyle
2016-05-19 22:31                 ` Scot Doyle
2016-05-19 22:50                 ` David Daney
2016-05-19 22:50                   ` David Daney
2016-05-19 22:50                   ` David Daney
2016-05-20  1:21                 ` Jeremy Kerr [this message]
2016-05-20  1:21                   ` Jeremy Kerr
2016-05-20  2:17                 ` Ming Lei
2016-05-20  2:17                   ` Ming Lei
2016-05-20  2:26                   ` Jeremy Kerr
2016-05-20  2:26                     ` Jeremy Kerr
2016-05-20  2:48                     ` Ming Lei
2016-05-20  2:48                       ` Ming Lei
2016-05-20  5:04                       ` Jeremy Kerr
2016-05-20  5:04                         ` Jeremy Kerr
2016-05-20 16:27                         ` Scot Doyle
2016-05-20 16:27                           ` Scot Doyle
2016-05-24  1:19                           ` Scot Doyle
2016-05-24  1:19                             ` Scot Doyle
2016-05-28 11:48                           ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2016-05-28 11:48                             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2016-06-12  5:05                             ` Chintakuntla, Radha
2016-05-28 11:45                 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2016-05-28 11:45                   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2016-05-19  0:27       ` [PATCH] tty: vt: Fix soft lockup in fbcon cursor blink timer Ming Lei
2016-05-19  7:08         ` Pavel Machek
2016-05-19 22:35 ` Scot Doyle
2016-05-28 11:44 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2016-06-14 16:22 ` Ping: " David Daney
2016-06-14 16:22   ` David Daney

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